Quotes About Focus

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

Winston Churchill's quote: "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

you prepare for a pitch, meeting, speech, or negotiation, the goal is to know your material so well that you are free to be in the moment.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es

Wie overal is, is nergens.

El pasado se iba alejando como un paisaje que se va reduciendo poco a poco hasta convertirse en un punto en el espejo retrovisor mientras, delante de ella, a través del parabrisas, brillaba un futuro que reclamaba toda su atención.

To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.

Magic doesn't work like that. You have to have intent and focus, but not think about it. - Aunt Polly

I told you, either use it or don't, but you can't just dibble-dabble with the bibble-babble." – Aunt Polly

It's the direction the feet are pointing—not the hands—that indicates a person's true interest.

It didn't matter. If she was to have any hope of saving Bellusdeo and Maggaron now, she needed to finish what she started; the anger and the self-recrimination would just have to wait. She'd no doubt she'd return to it later; unlike laundry, she'd never left self-recrimination undone.

Do not be concerned about the future; keep your attention on today, and stay in the present moment. Just live one day at a time. Always do your best to keep these agreements, and soon it will be easy for you. Today is the beginning of a new dream.

Do not be concerned about the future; keep your attention on today, and stay in the present moment. Just live one day at a time. Always do your best to keep these agreements, and soon it will be easy for you. Today is the beginning of a new dream. 6 THE TOLTEC PATH TO FREEDOM Breaking Old Agreements EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT FREEDOM.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind.

La necesidad de atención se vuelve muy fuerte y continúa en la edad adulta.

One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream.

No te inquietes por el futuro; mantén tu atención en el día de hoy y permanece en el momento presente.

Put your attention on your dreams rather than your dramas.

The mastery of the human mind requires complete control of the attention — the way we interpret and react to information we perceive from inside of us and outside of us.

Too many leaders focus all their energy on moving to the next chair as quickly as possible, and they miss the opportunity to develop their gifts in the current chair.